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moonpix 's review for:
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
by Shirley Hazzard
Hazzard is interested in power: how it manifests in romantic relationships and in the bureaucratic state. In some of the best stories here, both of these subjects collide. Layered over each other, each theme alternately becomes a metaphor for the other.
But the primary reason I am drawn to Hazzard is stylistic rather than conceptual. There is an overpowering elegance to her writing, somehow both elaborate and cutting. Not many short stories achieve the psychological depth that hers do, and that is thanks to her prose, which deconstructs characters with such piercing, tragic detail.
But the primary reason I am drawn to Hazzard is stylistic rather than conceptual. There is an overpowering elegance to her writing, somehow both elaborate and cutting. Not many short stories achieve the psychological depth that hers do, and that is thanks to her prose, which deconstructs characters with such piercing, tragic detail.